Haley's day out..... not Annie's

[gooeydog]

Not really a big deal, but it's been a while since she's really been anyplace but the big "pet friendly" petsmart and the local store (where the lady who owns it always gives her meat or cheese scraps :D ). Tomorrow my mom has some running to do, petsmart and a few other stores in that area, and I think I'm going to take her along and see how many of them we can get into, if not we'll either head back to petsmart or stay outside while my mom shops, but hopefully she'll get in some good socialization. I'd give it a try with Haley, but she's a lot bigger and more noticeable (can't exactly tuck her under an arm and shop :lol: ), and if we have to wait outside she doesn't have the heat tolerance for it, so I'll let Annie be the test dummy.

Side note: I know a lot of home depots are supposed to be pet friendly, but ours isn't :-? I did take Annie in real quick once and didn't get any comments, but they have a no pets sign, so is this a new policy or just in my area (which seems to be the norm for stores around here)?

[imported_Kat]

ooh have lots of fun! I love going socialising with Kes. I have the train station planned as next on my list and our local Texaco filling station doesn't reallya llow dogs but they go bonkers over Kes when i bring her. Banks are fine too, so its just a matter of getting kicked out to see where the dogs are allowed. I feel like saying this sometimes: My pup is better behaved than some kids who go rampaging all over!

[gooeydog]

Well, Annie must've ran into something yesterday and bruised up her eye a bit, because it was squinted up a bit this morning (happens every so often, thats what happens when your eyes are just 6" off the ground :o :lol: ), so I decided to leave her at home. Haley went instead, and did we have an adventure! She made a ton of friends at Petsmart, and was pretty wore out when we finally left there. I tried to take her into one other shop in the same center, but they told me once I was in that she couldn't come in, so we left and went back to Petsmart to wait. Then, we went to a drugstore to get her insulin, and since it was kinda hot, I decided to take her up by the store and wait rather than stay in the hot car. We were walking up, Haley wagging her tail and hopping along with a toy in her mouth, and a woman came out, looked at Haley, and launched over the cement bumper seperating the sidewalk from the parking lot, just as a car was pulling into the spot and almost mowed her down. I was something between amused and disturbed at that point, and turned away only to hear her say to the driver of the car, "I'd rather get ran over than near THAT dog!". Ooookay.

Next, as we neared the entrance/exit to the store (I was planning to go between the two so I could catch my mom coming out), a woman heading into the store with a little girl in front of her (probably about 10 yrs old, I guess it was her kid) spotted Haley, grabbed her kid and went to push her into the store, only to step on her ankles and knock her to the concrete. And they think my DOG is dangerous :roll: :lol: . So, we waited. A man came out and stopped to talk to Haley, then upon seeing how friendly she was, petted her for a few minutes, and was telling me about his son's pit bull. It was a pleasant experience, and at least he didn't nearly kill himself or anyone else trying to escape from us. Then, to my dismay, I saw the security guard (an older man, he's worked there for years) come out of the store and head towards us. I thought, "here we go, someone must've complained and now he's going to tell me to take my scary dog and get lost", but to my surprise, he stopped, regarded Haley for a minute, then pulled a pack of cookies out of his pocket and asked if she could have one! I looked, and they were some sugar filled, creme filling type, definitely not what Haley needed, so I told him she can't because of her diabetes, and he petted her, then asked again, "not even one?" :lol: so I gave him some liver treats to give her instead. So, while we had some bad experiences, we also had some very good ones :)

Side note: I was telling my Dad about it a bit ago, and he says that I should respect that some people are afraid of pit bulls.... I think there's a difference between being afraid and being irrational though, which IMO, both of these people were. I didn't push my dog on them, she wasn't doing anything to raise alarm and she wasn't even close to either of them when they had their reactions, so I dunno...

And Mei, I'll see what I can do about Annie with tool pics :lol: